THE BASIC STUDY OF TRENDS IN CHANGING INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT AND INFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF THE YOUTHS

在本研究中，我们从理论上探讨了信息社会的两个方面，并对群马县民众的媒体关注度进行了调查，进一步考察了以下三个方面：1）信息基础设施和信息行为的概念，2）群马县信息基础设施的改善情况，（3）人们对媒体和信息技术的关注状况。对群马县3,200人进行的问卷调查的主要结果如下。(1)电子游戏正在成为仅次于电视的最受欢迎的家庭娱乐媒体来源。(2)人们认为最必要的媒体来源如下：（从最多到最少）报纸，电视，电话。相反，大学生的兴趣是电视、电话和书籍/杂志。(3)只有10%的人在日常生活中操作或使用计算机;然而，68%的人认为，由于即将到来的信息社会，新信息技术的重要性正在增加。(4)在即将到来的多媒体时代大多数人希望新媒体使用方便，但另一方面，他们也担心电脑犯罪和电脑恐惧症。

In this research, we inquired two aspects of information society theoretically and conducted a survey about media concerns of the people in Gunma prefecture.In further detail, we examined the next three phases.1) the notion of information infrastructure and information behavior,2) the situation of improving information infrastructure in Gunma prefecture,3) the state of peoples concern about media and information technologies.Some of the main results of the questionnaire to 3,200 people in Gunma prefecture are as follows.(1) Video games are becoming the most popular media source of home entertainment next to television.(2) What the people consider the most necessary media source is as follows : (in order from the most to the least) Newspapers, TV, Telephones. On the contrary, those of university students were TV, Telephones and Books/Magazines.(3) Only 10% of the people operate or use computers in everyday life ; however, 68% feel that the importance of new information technologies is growing due to the coming information society.(4) In the coming multimedia age. most people hope that the new media would be easy to use.But on the other hand, they are also anxious about the computer crimes and computerphobia.